Exploring relationships between climate change beliefs and energy preferences: A network analysis of the European Social Survey

Verschoor, Mark; Albers, Casper J.; Poortinga, Wouter; Böhm, Gisela; Steg, Linda

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101435

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“…They further show that both curtailment and efficiency behaviors were more likely to be reported when such behaviors were perceived to be possible (high personal efficacy) and effective in mitigating climate change when employed alone (personal outcome expectancy) or as a collective (collective outcome expectancy). This supports previous findings establishing that different efficacy constructs can be empirically distinguished in terms of their contribution to pro-environmental behaviors [e.g., 43 , 44 , 70 ]. The distinct effect size of each of the significant efficacy constructs was highly similar when predicting energy curtailment behaviors.…”

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Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors

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This paper explores whether efficacy beliefs can alter the relationship between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors, controlling for climate change beliefs and socio-demographics. For this purpose, we used data from 23 countries that participated in the European Social Survey Round 8 (N = 44 387). Worry about climate change, personal efficacy, personal outcome expectancy, and collective outcome expectancy were each associated with personal energy-saving behaviors concerning either energy curtailment or energy efficiency. The results further show that outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and both types of energy behaviors. Worry was more strongly related to energy curtailment behaviors among those with high levels of personal and collective outcome expectancy. A similar pattern was found for energy efficiency behaviors, which were more strongly predicted by worry about climate change when combined with high levels of collective outcome expectancy. These findings are relevant for climate change communication, especially informational campaigns aiming to lower overall household energy use.

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“…This survey was carried out between August 2016 and December 2017, resulting in a cross-national sample population of 44.387 participants. These were chosen at random after applying the corresponding post-stratification and population weighting coefficients [54].…”

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Generational Portrait of Spanish Society in the Face of Climate Change. A Question to Consider for the Green Economy under the Well-Being Approach

2021

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Climate change is emerging as an issue of progressive attention, and therefore awareness, in societies. In this work, the problem is addressed from a generational perspective in Spanish society and is carried out from the approaches of awareness, human action, and self-responsibility. All this from the search of the subjective well-being and the citizens’ happiness, as one of the bases of sustainable development initiatives. With data from the European Social Survey R8, from EUROSTAT, we work in two phases: (1) descriptive and inferential on possible associations of the items with the variable Age, and (2) calculation of probabilities between groups through logistic regression. The results confirm a general awareness, but with apparent statistical differences between age groups. In general, the youngest are the most aware, blame human activity most intensely, are the most concerned, and are the most willing to act. And it is the older people who are less aware of all these issues. Based on this finding, and from the approach mentioned above, it is recommended that leaders, both in the macroeconomic and microeconomic sectors, develop initiatives that sensitize and encourage older age groups.

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“…Anthropogenic climate change, which is caused by production and usage of energy, inevitably affects the world by increasing the average global temperature, reducing biodiversity, harmfully impacting nature, and more. 1 Energy development is crucial to hinder climate change and prevent detrimental effects while sustaining both positive social and economic development. 2 To decrease the environmental impacts of climate change, a sustainable strategy that includes improved energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable development is necessary.…”

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Review on Catalytic Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production as a Sustainable Energy Form and Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, and Political Analysis of Catalysts

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2022

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Sustainable energy production is a worldwide concern due to the adverse effects and limited availability of fossil fuels, requiring the development of suitable environmentally friendly alternatives. Hydrogen is considered a sustainable future energy source owing to its unique properties as a clean and nontoxic fuel with high energy yield and abundance. Hydrogen can be produced through renewable and nonrenewable sources where the production method and feedstock used are indicators of whether they are carbon-neutral or not. Biomass is one of the renewable hydrogen sources that is also available in large quantities and can be used in different conversion methods to produce fuel, heat, chemicals, etc. Biomass gasification is a promising technology to generate carbon-neutral hydrogen. However, tar production during this process is the biggest obstacle limiting hydrogen production and commercialization of biomass gasification technology. This review focuses on hydrogen production through catalytic biomass gasification. The effect of different catalysts to enhance hydrogen production is reviewed, and social, technological, economic, environmental, and political (STEEP) analysis of catalysts is carried out to demonstrate challenges in the field and the development of catalysts.

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Exploring relationships between climate change beliefs and energy preferences: A network analysis of the European Social Survey

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Cited by 30 publications

References 35 publications

Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors

Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors

Generational Portrait of Spanish Society in the Face of Climate Change. A Question to Consider for the Green Economy under the Well-Being Approach

Review on Catalytic Biomass Gasification for Hydrogen Production as a Sustainable Energy Form and Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, and Political Analysis of Catalysts

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